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Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs (arstechnica.com)
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Panasonic, once revered for its plasma TVs, is giving up on making its own TV sets. Today, it announced that Chinese company Skyworth will take over manufacturing, marketing, and selling Panasonic-branded TVs.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Aaand another one bites the dust. So who's left that still makes non-PRC TVs? Just the Koreans I think. When I last shopped TVs I looked for non-PRC options and the only ones available in Canada were LG, Samsung and Sony. Sony already bit the dust a short while ago.

[–] privatepirate@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PRC? Sorry looking it up didn't give me a good result.

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"People's Republic of China"

[–] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sony bit the dust? I bought a Sony OLED 8 months ago and it’s fantastic

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're good, but Sony recently announced that going forward their TVs will be made by TCL. It'll still be branded Sony but it's not, really.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Yup, that's what I was referring to.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago

Can't compete with lower wages, it's similar to when Sony and Panasonic etc. took over from GE etc.

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Any particular reason why you don't want a TV made in China?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 17 hours ago

I used to be on the China-bad bandwagon when I bought our current Sony. I didn't understand nearly as well how production worked as I do now. The next time I have to buy one I'd evaluate on the basis of quality regardless of origin. I'd also avoid high amount of custom software to avoid annoyance and security holes, just like I did when I purchased our current one.